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Cats are native to every continent and virtually every biome.
Walmarts are not.
Cats are native to very, very narrow slice of Northern Africa, and only spread around with human. I don't even think it's possible to be native to any biome, like, on principal.
Edit for clarity: we're talking about species here, not genus or family.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-big-cat-ranges-and-study-locations-Global-distribution-of-big-cat_fig2_356499567
Well, if you don't think it's possible, I guess that settles it
there are also 100s of small wild cats native to various parts of the world.
they are however, very rare to see so people are clueless that they exist. Bobcats are native to my area, but most people are extremely luck if they EVER see one their entire lifetime in the wild. I spend hours outdoors every week and I've seen maybe 1-2 in my entire lifetime.
They are incredibly reclusive animals. but people only ever think about animals they do see.
And that's why, even though there are a bunch of Felidae (all cats) or even Felinae (subset of all cats) native to many ecosystems around the world, Felis catus, the domesticated cat specie is invasive and quite damaging to many ecosystems.
Do you know what "big cat" means, and why the word big is there? That was a rhetorical question
That was a polite way to tell you that you talk obvious bollocks, but I guess this subtlety is also lost on you